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This is a very easy to install pagination class that takes a PHP array and parses it into an array.

To install into one of your personal array's start by including the main file and creating the pagination object.

<?php
include 'pagination.class.php';
$pagination = new pagination;
?>

Once this is done, simply do the following with your own array.

For this tutorial i will create some test data, in multidimensional array, this is not essential - it's only for an example.

<?php

$products[] = array(
'Product' => 'Product 1',
'Price' => rand(100, 1000),
);

$products[] = array(
'Product' => 'Product 2',
'Price' => rand(100, 1000),
);

?>

Now i have my test data, i need to parse the data through the pagination class so that i can extract the part of the array that i need for the current page i am on, like so. I identify the array using the array's name and then i specify how many results per page i would like, for this example i have selected 20.

<?php
$productPages = $pagination->generate($products, 20);
?>

Now that i have the results for the current page ready i simply loop through them and output the results.

<?php
foreach ($productPages as $productArray) {
// Show the information about the item
echo '<p><b>'.$productArray['Product'].'</b> 243'.$productArray['Price'].'</p>';
}
?>

Now i have the results partitioned into the sections i have chosen i now need to output the page numbers, this can be done like so:

<?php
echo $pagination->links();
?>

And that's it, for ease of use the copy and pastable code is below, you will need to download the pagination class and this can be done using the download link at the top of the page.

<?php
// Include the pagination class
include 'pagination.class.php';
// Create the pagination object
$pagination = new pagination;

// some example data
foreach (range(1, 100) as $value) {
$products[] = array(
'Product' => 'Product '.$value,
'Price' => rand(100, 1000),
);
}

// If we have an array with items
if (count($products)) {
// Parse through the pagination class
$productPages = $pagination->generate($products, 20);
// If we have items
if (count($productPages) != 0) {
// Create the page numbers
echo $pageNumbers = '<div>'.$pagination->links().'</div>';
// Loop through all the items in the array
foreach ($productPages as $productID => $productArray) {
// Show the information about the item
echo '<p><b>'.$productArray['Product'].'</b> 243'.$productArray['Price'].'</p>';
}
// print out the page numbers beneath the results
echo $pageNumbers;
}
}
?>

Thanks for reading.

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